Custom Authentication Filter with Spring Security
After answering a question on stackoverflow about how to configure Spring Security with your own authentication mechanism I’d like to go into more details in this post. I’ll implement a simple use case where the actual authentication is done by reading the username and password from the header of a request. The example method we implement in this post is NOT a secure way of implementing authentication. I just choose it for the sake of simplicity to demonstrate how to register your own authentication in Spring Security.